Day For Night 2017 Lineup Announced

(Houston, TX – September 20, 2017) Day for Night is excited to announce its 2017 line-up, including headliners Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St Vincent, Tyler, The Creator, and James Blake, and 18 art installations and performances by internationally renowned visual artists such as Ryoji Ikeda and Matthew Schreiber. The weekend’s concerts and visual art will be augmented by a Friday Summit with Chelsea Manning, Laurie Anderson, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Lauren McCarthy speaking on the intersection of art, technology, and activism. After the talks there will be a special performance presented by Saint Heron featuring Solange, followed by Earl Sweatshirt, and Kaytranada. Complete line-up here.

In solidarity with its hometown of Houston and the surrounding areas affected by Hurricane Harvey, Day for Night has committed a portion of its proceeds to the Greater Houston Community Foundation.

This third edition of Day for Night, which Consequence of Sound named one of the top three festivals in the world, is set for December 15-17. It will once again transform the 1.5 million square foot, cold-war eraPostHTX (401 Franklin St) into a unique stage for artists, musicians, and thinkers. Large-scale audiovisual installations and site-specific custom-built structures will provide a unique experience — an art exhibition, weekend-long music festival, and cultural symposium all in one.

“We couldn’t be more excited to host this lineup of who we think are leaders in their disciplines of arts, music and ideas. This dynamic lineup represents just the beginning of an aggressive three to five year plan to grow Day for Night into a multi venue five-day citywide event. Houston has a long standing legacy of technology, art and culture, and we see Day for Night as part of that story in the future,” says Omar Afra, Executive Producer and co-founder of Day for Night.

DAY FOR NIGHT SUMMIT (FRIDAY ONLY)
The Day for Night Summit will kick off the weekend festivities on Friday, with four prominent activists sharing their thoughts on the relationship between art, technology, and activism, and a special musical performance. Government transparency and LGBTQ advocate Chelsea Manning, visual artist and musician Laurie Anderson, musician, conceptual artist, and political activist Nadya Tolokonnikova(Pussy Riot), and Los Angeles-based artist Lauren McCarthy will speak. “Soul Cleansing,” a Special Performance presented by Saint Heron ft. Solange followed by Earl Sweatshirt, and Kaytranada, will follow the talks to close out the evening.

“The Day for Night Summit is a massive platform for exchanging ideas about how art and technology is changing our world. Every day there is less and less separation between musicians, activists, and audiences. At the Day for Night Summit, we will all be participants in shaping our collective future,” says the Friday Summit curator Karen Farber, Director of the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

The Summit on Friday is a separate, ticketed event, offering Day for Night Attendees the opportunity to begin the weekend early, and add eleven hours of events to their schedules: music, a sneak peak at the site-specific artworks that have been installed for the festival, and a series of activist-led talks.

Multimedia artist Ryoji Ikeda, who brought his wildly innovative “stage shows” to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will create a site-specific work for the festival. Holographer and laser light artist Matthew Schreiber, who was formerly James Turrell’s studio assistant, will create a site-specific, large-scale light installation for a concert. Los Angeles-based nonprofit Conditional Group + Processing Foundation will present a new installation and workshop about creative coding, software literacy in the visual arts, and youth education. Theodore Fivel, a sculptor based in Paris, will bring one of his amorphic creations, using the space as an art installation. Lina Dib, the artist and anthropologist known for investigates socio-technical, ethnographic, and ecological change, will provide a site-specific work.

“With the 2017 edition of Day for Night, we continue combining well-established and internationally acclaimed artists with emerging talent from around the world. We are also pushing forward with our mission to bring a better understanding of new media practices by introducing more educational components. Finally, this year’s edition will continue to showcase collaborations between artists and musicians, with performances within installations, thus sharpening our focus on the merging waters of light, sound and space,” says Day for Night Curator Alex Czetwertynski.